A rare cinematic portrait of queer women’s intimacy in Nigeria
The new short film “Ifé” is a moving story about the delights and difficulties of human relationships.
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Lindsey Green-Simms
Lindsey Green-Simms’ teaching and research focuses on African and post-colonial film and literature.
Nigeria’s first lesbian documentary
A new documentary film aims to promote awareness and acceptance of LGBTQ in a country where living openly as a gay woman is often a silent and secret struggle.
Will Kenya’s courts let gay people live?
Director Wanuri Kahiu went to look for hopeful African love stories and made a lesbian love story, amid court sanctioned homophobia.
The Coming-Out of the African Same-Sex Novel
Uzodinma Iweala’s new novel about a closeted gay Nigerian comes out as we’re witnessing a burgeoning African—and specifically Nigerian—literary attention to same-sex sexuality.
Baltimore Blues
Rather than spending money to fix massive inequalities, the U.S. funds militarizing the police, incarcerating black youth, and state violence.
On New African Writing
What precisely is new about new African writing and what makes it different from what we have seen before?